It's so much harder to do this in a pool than a specifically designed wooden ramp with a much more gradual transition, but Alva didn't know that, so it was not a hinderance. Pioneer.
Now I can watch these guys on youtube, but their legendary status in the 70s was reinforced by only being able to see them in shots from the skating mags. Tony Alva. The name alone still makes me shake my head with disbelief.
i invented the kickturn in the 1950's, on my scooter, after I ripped the fruit crate off. I am a top professional, and safety is my main concern, I don't want to be out for the entire season.
That's why making up stuff is hard sometimes for me haha... why do a caveman shuvit revert when you can put in a little work and prefect them switch front crooks lol
I respect it but to me bowl/ tranny is all the fucking same, and it gets boring really fast: Air, Air, grind, big air, big drop, couple hand plants, few bonelesses. I know, I sound ignorant, but honestly it's all the same to me. With street skating there's more environment, and your not stuck in a bowl all day.
Roll up to a bowl and drop in and try the stuff these dudes did. Its scary as shit. You'll see why most people don't do it now a days. Street is great to watch as well though. However its getting really hard to make unique tricks with it now a days
I only knew Alva and a lot of the skaters from the 70's through still photos in Skateboarder magazine. Since we had no UA-cam back then it is good to finally set them skate.
It's awesome and scary at the same time! I see all the kids sitting behind them just staring into space , today they are all staring into their phones almost robotic! Loved Dogtown Skates and Tracker trucks! Kryptonics were the best wheels around my neck of the woods! I had a Sums pure juice board and wheels! Gosh I miss back then!
And to think that just a few years after this video I would meet TA at the Cherry Hill park grand opening where he would spraypaint ALVA in huge letters on the interior cinderblock wall.
friend of mine competed against them in a contest in Tampa. It was his home skate park. He finished in the top 3 and said the pro skaters were total assholes to him.
The music at 0:10secs to 2:04 is the Dixie Dregs “Sleep” from the Freefall album. It’s beautiful. At 4:27 “Take it off the top” by the Dixie Dregs. So good.
That whole wide board movement..it happened so fast. In '77, i was riding a Logan Earth Ski with Road Rider 4s n then orange Krips..then a Sims Lonny Toft with green Snakes. By fall of '78, I had a Z-Ply with 8" Lazers and Sunspots.. All these parks goin up. Sadly, I got shipped off to a logging town in Ore. that winter. I'm just thankful I got to be a part of that wave growing up.
@@toiletpaper5770 .....yes they did and z-pigs were the first......rode a Z-Pig P.O.P. George Wilson back then....I had one of the first concave decks on the east coast back then......Dog Town Jim Muir Tri-plane with clear pizza grip on top , ordered everything from Val-Surf back then because little was available on the east coast back then......still have all my old stuff.....
@@waynecartwright9478 Nice, I had a Triplane too, with Indy 169s and gyros. I grew up in chicago but I had an Aunt and Uncle who lived In Marina Del Rey and got to skate there every summer while it was open. Unfortunately it was only open for about three years.
Yeah I had a few skateboarder and skateboard world magazines and that's the angle I usually got pics of some dude name Tony Alva back when I was like ten ish in 1976 or 77,I had a Sims Lonny Toft 8.5 ×32 and was blessed to have a very touring pro show me a backside air front side air and a front side ally oop landing blind backside in a giant 14 foot half pipe in Nanuet New York,too bad the place could deal with tripled insured rates,Tony Hawk would be playing my video games,probably not but who's know was a good start for some skinny east coast kid,best was I was amped I was going big with 4 foot airs in 1976,it would have been awsum to see where at least one or two more years would have taken me,but the underground back yard scene really didn't exist yet,it would have been cool to have some crazy back yard stuff like Tony Hawks dad built that was rad,and he had his trouble making that fly on his own land come on talk about racism....where just having good clean fun...piece out,thanks I hear Tony still smoke a pool and can ride unbelievable,he was the only name I remembered,that and Steve Alba,Shougo Kubo,Christian Asoi,Stacy Peralta...
n00bk1ng3r665 ....could u tell us why or on what Alva is the best??. not skating man. he was not he is not and he will not...I allways talk shit to T. A... I know he was one of the pioners but he was not neither the only nor the bestone....smart...bussines centered ambicious clever..yeaaaah he really was and he is. ...but!...now as a skater.. ummmmm.....he skated for 10 years or less and talking about skate more than 40...he did not made any evolution nor improvement on his skating since 82. it is very romantic and cool all this lords of dogtown stuff ..a skater skates...and as lance said once a skater can not skating doing it
@@alejandroquiviracalvo6472 Alva was not a smart business man he really dosent have much money today he owns a shitty house in vista ca and his skate shop is shit with the exact same logo and low budget shirts
Lords of Dogtown literally showed them innovating and doing things that had never been done. Almost everything was flat ground, non-flip trick stuff. Vert wasn't much of a thing, and neither were flip tricks. Tony Hawk helped develop this style further into the late 80s/90s/etc but prior to the dogtown boys it was mostly ramps.
@@ConnorLipke -I wish I could remember what the movie was called, it was so long ago- Edit: I think it was called "Skateboard Madness". And in hindsight, "progressed past this point" doesn't even make sense... it's just different styles being displayed.
david hacket is still doing airs...no big ones buuuut he is still got it because he love skateboarding, no like other who Iam not going to mention that they love fame money....of course they liked skate but that is not love....as I said they love money and like skate...there are others who like money and fame and deeply love skateboarding
tony invented the kick turn, what bullshit! Dude, we skated the fruit bowl when he did, pretty sure that was 77 and we did them a few years before that. WE FUCKING INVENTED IT THEN! We kick turned all kinds of inclines, ditches... we even were blunting the top of the ditches...
Tony was more of a personality than a good skateboarder. If you watch videos of other skaters at the time you will see that they were much better than Alva. Both in style and in the number of maneuvers.
oh u like to skate, one wrong move ur out buddy, strike out, game over, better wear ur safety equiptment, u could totally poke an eye out with one of those skateboards doing radical tricks like tony, pad here and a pad there, make sure ur wearing them or ur outta here mister
That's exactly right. Most of the old Bros club (those skating vert in 1975-76), had their body at horizontal or lower. They, and all of us for that matter, had no idea that skating would go WAY above the coping. It just wasn't possible in their/our minds LOL. The body achieves, what the mind believes. The exact reason that I, and the majority of old dudes in general, cannot Ollie. In my mind, my young formative mind, the Ollie just wasn't possible. Sure we jumped (basically ollied) up and off of curbs without hesitation, the next step though wasn't introduced yet. Lest, I digress, his skating is great, stylish, rad and smooth like butta. You must be under 40yrs old right?
It's as if they have no concept on how to skate. You could view these teaching as what not to do. No wonder Alva didn't get but a couple of inches of air.
vistacruiser70s But bear in mind these guys and the other Z boys invented these moves...no-one else was getting any air at all before this so you have to see it in context. It was revolutionary at the time...
vistacruiser70s Come on dude.. these guys where kings at the time. All of us skating in the 70's dreamed about getting one single inch of air, but that was close to impossible. But the Z Boys did it! Still have my 1978 Alva wideboard sitting in my garage. :)
***** I see what you're saying. I've never ridden a pool before, but thats what I wanna do, and I'm goin to a park tomarrow to work on dropping in and kickturns.
It's so much harder to do this in a pool than a specifically designed wooden ramp with a much more gradual transition, but Alva didn't know that, so it was not a hinderance. Pioneer.
Check out this guy. He's older and at the end of his video, he gets so much air it's insane..... ...ua-cam.com/video/v0_T9DkOe9k/v-deo.html
They also had luck to even have pools like that… in Europe most swimming pools have always been totally square! Lol
@@eswarjuri And they had luck that there was a drought in the summer of 1976 and pools were empty. This was a rarity.
Alva was a pioneer but he was not alone. He was, however, the first to catch air.
Now I can watch these guys on youtube, but their legendary status in the 70s was reinforced by only being able to see them in shots from the skating mags. Tony Alva. The name alone still makes me shake my head with disbelief.
It's 100 times harder when you are the 1st to do a trick. Tricks are easy when everyone is doing them and you can watch and learn.
fuck you meow ya fkn tourist
i invented the kickturn in the 1950's, on my scooter, after I ripped the fruit crate off. I am a top professional, and safety is my main concern, I don't want to be out for the entire season.
it's easier to see the way, when your standing on the shoulders of giants
That's why making up stuff is hard sometimes for me haha... why do a caveman shuvit revert when you can put in a little work and prefect them switch front crooks lol
Easier*
i wish more dudes my age appreciated this type of skating its soo rad i wish i was born in 1975
I respect it but to me bowl/ tranny is all the fucking same, and it gets boring really fast: Air, Air, grind, big air, big drop, couple hand plants, few bonelesses. I know, I sound ignorant, but honestly it's all the same to me. With street skating there's more environment, and your not stuck in a bowl all day.
Roll up to a bowl and drop in and try the stuff these dudes did. Its scary as shit. You'll see why most people don't do it now a days. Street is great to watch as well though. However its getting really hard to make unique tricks with it now a days
U were born 15 yrs too late
1975........these guys were teenagers in 1975
Swap the last 2 digits of the birth year and you’d be right in their company.
I only knew Alva and a lot of the skaters from the 70's through still photos in Skateboarder magazine. Since we had no UA-cam back then it is good to finally set them skate.
Started Skating in 75, started vert in 1979... these days were the best
Wow, who would have thought that 41 years later I’d be watching these guys on device I could hold in my hand. DogTown forever (RIP JayBoy)
Amen.
It's awesome and scary at the same time! I see all the kids sitting behind them just staring into space , today they are all staring into their phones almost robotic! Loved Dogtown Skates and Tracker trucks! Kryptonics were the best wheels around my neck of the woods! I had a Sums pure juice board and wheels! Gosh I miss back then!
The old Marina del Rey skatepark… I wish I had been able to visit it!
Love Alva's style!
Alva and the Hackman are the absolute top shelf of pool skating
What a great vid! I love those guy’s styles
And to think that just a few years after this video I would meet TA at the Cherry Hill park grand opening where he would spraypaint ALVA in huge letters on the interior cinderblock wall.
AWA
Great vid,im really lucky to have sk8d those parks.its really more the times.Thanks🤙
any relation to Wally??
Classic!
Fantastic find!
friend of mine competed against them in a contest in Tampa. It was his home skate park. He finished in the top 3 and said the pro skaters were total assholes to him.
Once i had a tailguard and a noseguard and a lapper and rails.
The music at 0:10secs to 2:04 is the Dixie Dregs “Sleep” from the Freefall album. It’s beautiful.
At 4:27 “Take it off the top” by the Dixie Dregs.
So good.
That whole wide board movement..it happened so fast. In '77, i was riding a Logan Earth Ski with Road Rider 4s n then orange Krips..then a Sims Lonny Toft with green Snakes. By fall of '78, I had a Z-Ply with 8" Lazers and Sunspots.. All these parks goin up. Sadly, I got shipped off to a logging town in Ore. that winter. I'm just thankful I got to be a part of that wave growing up.
They called them pigs
@@toiletpaper5770 .....yes they did and z-pigs were the first......rode a Z-Pig P.O.P. George Wilson back then....I had one of the first concave decks on the east coast back then......Dog Town Jim Muir Tri-plane with clear pizza grip on top , ordered everything from Val-Surf back then because little was available on the east coast back then......still have all my old stuff.....
@@waynecartwright9478 that's rad thanks for sharing
@@waynecartwright9478 Nice, I had a Triplane too, with Indy 169s and gyros. I grew up in chicago but I had an Aunt and Uncle who lived In Marina Del Rey and got to skate there every summer while it was open. Unfortunately it was only open for about three years.
Yeah I had a few skateboarder and skateboard world magazines and that's the angle I usually got pics of some dude name Tony Alva back when I was like ten ish in 1976 or 77,I had a Sims Lonny Toft 8.5 ×32 and was blessed to have a very touring pro show me a backside air front side air and a front side ally oop landing blind backside in a giant 14 foot half pipe in Nanuet New York,too bad the place could deal with tripled insured rates,Tony Hawk would be playing my video games,probably not but who's know was a good start for some skinny east coast kid,best was I was amped I was going big with 4 foot airs in 1976,it would have been awsum to see where at least one or two more years would have taken me,but the underground back yard scene really didn't exist yet,it would have been cool to have some crazy back yard stuff like Tony Hawks dad built that was rad,and he had his trouble making that fly on his own land come on talk about racism....where just having good clean fun...piece out,thanks I hear Tony still smoke a pool and can ride unbelievable,he was the only name I remembered,that and Steve Alba,Shougo Kubo,Christian Asoi,Stacy Peralta...
Dude I meee too! Mid 70’s and 80’s are rad.
The Dog Bowl at Marina was a massive
Kidney pool this Footage is 🤙
- Oh the memories :)
On the drums, Mr. Bun E. Carlos!
great drummer with big sticks.....
Legend.
Wow . So dope
3:33 I like big board and I cannot lie!
dude these guys were legeneds
ROCK!!! EN ROLL!!
70s seem like some of the best times!
Vertical riding is heavvyyy!
ooo Check out this guy. He's older and at the end of his video, he gets so much air it's insane..... ...@
what a legend
🖤
This Video was Shot Early July 1979 Not 1981...Because by July 28 1979 Tony had his hair Cut!!!
You're wrong
Mark MacRae Prove it
.....correct....
@@Corinthians-kjv ......no, you are wrong....
Alva!!!!
I like the colors Tony!!😂😂
Talk is just talk unless we got some footage to look at my friend ;)
He did a Switch handplant there... Wow!
The handplant was done by the other skater Hackett who is goofy foot, not by Alva
Alva has never done hand plants
alva is the best
n00bk1ng3r665 ....could u tell us why or on what Alva is the best??. not skating man. he was not he is not and he will not...I allways talk shit to T. A...
I know he was one of the pioners but he was not neither the only nor the bestone....smart...bussines centered ambicious clever..yeaaaah he really was and he is.
...but!...now as a skater..
ummmmm.....he skated for 10 years or less and talking
about skate more than 40...he did not made any evolution nor improvement on his skating since 82. it is very romantic and cool all this lords of dogtown stuff
..a skater skates...and as lance said once a skater can not skating doing it
@@alejandroquiviracalvo6472 Alva was not a smart business man he really dosent have much money today he owns a shitty house in vista ca and his skate shop is shit with the exact same logo and low budget shirts
What kind of board is he using!??
Unbelievable 04:44 You would see shots like that in Skateboarder or even Action Now and just die.
💎
When was this filmed? I saw a movie from 1980 where people had already progressed past this style.
No way did you see a film in 1980 that progressed past what Alva was doing in this vid.
Lords of Dogtown literally showed them innovating and doing things that had never been done. Almost everything was flat ground, non-flip trick stuff. Vert wasn't much of a thing, and neither were flip tricks. Tony Hawk helped develop this style further into the late 80s/90s/etc but prior to the dogtown boys it was mostly ramps.
@@ConnorLipke
-I wish I could remember what the movie was called, it was so long ago- Edit: I think it was called "Skateboard Madness". And in hindsight, "progressed past this point" doesn't even make sense... it's just different styles being displayed.
Wow they should talk about todays maneuvers.
bro ride the bowl!
Hi Surfstyley, Do you own this footage? I’m interested in using it! I hope you can help? Kind regards Simon
The music! Sheesh
Yep .. the shit started with these dudes
TA started the fire
This is actually from 1979.
No it aint
@@Corinthians-kjv ....yes it is....
The worse part about accidents, there's HEAD INJURIES.
Not like a broken skull, but shaking the inside of your cranium can lead to a COMA!
I've lived!
Cool
😊
What I was thinking lol
TA🖤 🇲🇽
Was this the video where they got picked up in a limo and got paid in cash and drugs?
Funny how Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, and Jay Adams Romero, all have Mexican ancestry!!
.....keep in mind we stole california from the mexicans.....
tony whaaaaaiiiii no kickflip thooooooooo???
i wont try these crazy skateboard stunts cuz im not a pro
Work your way up bro. They aren't that technical. But don't go around jumping down like 27 stairs.
They were wearing orange because they were just on their lunch brake from working on the road crew brah
Yeah, 'cause gravity doesn't apply these days, and bones don't break anymore.
.....not when you ride as slow as they do now with small wheels......it's a different game now
That’s 1978
No egg plant to fakie?
david hacket is still doing airs...no big ones buuuut he is still got it because he love skateboarding, no like other who Iam not going to mention that they love fame money....of course they liked skate but that is not love....as I said they love money and like skate...there are others who like money and fame and deeply love skateboarding
Sorry, Lonnie.
Alva never did hand plants
tony invented the kick turn, what bullshit! Dude, we skated the fruit bowl when he did, pretty sure that was 77 and we did them a few years before that. WE FUCKING INVENTED IT THEN! We kick turned all kinds of inclines, ditches... we even were blunting the top of the ditches...
Johnny Bravo but you're not pro or famous so no one cares
Too much LSD?
Hi
Den Alva brädan skulle man ha!
Just like hip hop round that time to
......hell no! that crap was laughed at back then.....strictly rock n roll
he did not invent the kickturn in pools or elsewhere.
Okay. Who did?
Who did? Ill tell ya... Alva
How many of us don't know about these pee-wee tricks?
And then Duane peters , Then Hawk , then see ya .
Gator.
.......big gap in time there buddy......
alva didnt invent the kickturn for cryin out loud
of course he didnt
I idolized those cats when we were all 15 .
@modelotime ....you are correct...
x
The Alva hammerhead. Coolest and shittiest built deck in history.
Watch the newest Vans documentary on Alva from last week. No fluff piece. Brutally honest and badass. ua-cam.com/video/Ewfc0H8P3dI/v-deo.html
Tony was more of a personality than a good skateboarder. If you watch videos of other skaters at the time you will see that they were much better than Alva. Both in style and in the number of maneuvers.
What these dudes 🤙🏽 wore protective gear LAME
oh u like to skate, one wrong move ur out buddy, strike out, game over, better wear ur safety equiptment, u could totally poke an eye out with one of those skateboards doing radical tricks like tony, pad here and a pad there, make sure ur wearing them or ur outta here mister
What the fuck is this music..
Alva doesn't get high air because he is to far below his board.
+vistacruiser70s
But in 1977 TA actually did get air, no one else did.. get it?
That's exactly right. Most of the old Bros club (those skating vert in 1975-76), had their body at horizontal or lower. They, and all of us for that matter, had no idea that skating would go WAY above the coping. It just wasn't possible in their/our minds LOL. The body achieves, what the mind believes. The exact reason that I, and the majority of old dudes in general, cannot Ollie. In my mind, my young formative mind, the Ollie just wasn't possible. Sure we jumped (basically ollied) up and off of curbs without hesitation, the next step though wasn't introduced yet. Lest, I digress, his skating is great, stylish, rad and smooth like butta. You must be under 40yrs old right?
It's as if they have no concept on how to skate. You could view these teaching as what not to do. No wonder Alva didn't get but a couple of inches of air.
vistacruiser70s But bear in mind these guys and the other Z boys invented these moves...no-one else was getting any air at all before this so you have to see it in context. It was revolutionary at the time...
vistacruiser70s Come on dude.. these guys where kings at the time. All of us skating in the 70's dreamed about getting one single inch of air, but that was close to impossible. But the Z Boys did it!
Still have my 1978 Alva wideboard sitting in my garage. :)
What was wrong with what he was doing?
***** But were the tricks wrong? I never thought to grab the nose during a kickturn, but that's acceptable.
***** I see what you're saying. I've never ridden a pool before, but thats what I wanna do, and I'm goin to a park tomarrow to work on dropping in and kickturns.
Those fat boards suck
......said the 44mm wheel riding dude......